Author(s)

L. Yu & A.M. Righetto

Abstract

The paper briefly reports the application of the turbulence depth-averaged two-equation closure k - w model (k : depth-averaged turbulent kinetic energy parameter, iv : depth-averaged vorticity fluctuation parameter of turbulence) to tidal modelling and contaminant distributions in an estuary. 1 Introduction It is well known that in the well-mixed region of broad and shallow waters, the horizontal distributions of waste heat and other passive mass are only of interest to many engineering problems. However, most of existent depth-averaged mathematical models only take the turbulent viscosity and diffusivity as constants or given by simple phenomenological algebraic formulae, whic

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